Mr Henry Swain Bennett

Title

Mr Henry Swain Bennett

Personal Name

Bennett, Henry Swain

Birth Date

1858

Death Date

1927

Occupation

Corn merchant & director of companies (1911 census)
Grazier (Kelly's, 1916)

Home address

Holmewood, Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire (1911 census; Kelly's, 1916)

Corporate name

J. B. & Son (Kelly's, 1916)

Donation

£1,000 (Annual Report, 1922)
£5,000 bequest in will "for general purposes".
(ULA M-2)
£1,000 bequest in will to provide a scholarship for students who have attended schools in Kirby Muxloe (ULA M-2)

College appointments

Court of Governors, 1924-1927

Associated organisations

Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1913
Leicestershire Archaeological Society, 1913

Bibliography

Annual Report (1922)
1911 Census for England and Wales
Civil Registration Death Index for England and Wales
Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1916, pp. 114, 313, 604, 694.
Leicester Literary and Philopsophical Society Transactions, vol. 20 (1919), p. 58; vol. 22 (1921), p. 10
Leicestershire Archaeological Society Transactions, (1919).
University of Leicester Archive, M-2.

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